Weather with Cliff Mass

9:21 am

Fri May 24, 2013

Mass: Some rain, some sun this Memorial Day weekend

Rain showers will be coming and going this weekend. That's the big picture, but Cliff Mass, professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, says the weekend won’t be a total washout.

“Memorial Day weekend is generally not the best,” he says. “We have a really nice period sometime in the early to mid-May most years, and we’ve had it.”

Now, Mass says, we’re starting to see the infamous “June gloom syndrome,” which he says involves “a lot of low clouds and sprinkles.”

“There should be some improving trend, but I’m afraid it’s not going to improve quite fast enough,” he says.

The weekend will start off with a cloudy Friday.

“There’s a few showers hanging around, nothing heavy,” he says.

Saturday will bring more of the same—“lots of low clouds” with a few showers and a few possible sunbreaks, Mass says. Temperatures will climb to the lower 60s, “maybe 63, 64.”